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Agence France-Presse

An 18-year-old Chechen accused of beheading a teacher near his school in a Paris suburb received asylum in France and had no links to Russia, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday.
“This crime has no relation to Russia because this person had lived in France for the past 12 years,” the spokesman for the Russian embassy in Paris, Sergei Parinov, told state news agency TASS.
Identifying the suspect – who was fatally wounded by police – as Abdullakh Anzorov, Parinov said his family arrived in France when Anzorov was six years old and requested asylum.
The young man received a residence permit this year, he added.
“He had no contacts with the (Russian) embassy,” Parinov said.
He said it was “important not where a person was born” but when and why he embraced “terrorist ideology”.
On Friday, 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of the French capital.
The attacker was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and later died of his injuries.
The teacher had been the target of online threats for having shown pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class.


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A woman lays flowers at the entrance of a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker who was shot dead by policemen. Photo: AFP

French teacher who showed Prophet Mohammed cartoons beheaded in ‘terrorist’ attack

Police officers secure the area near the scene of a stabbing attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine. Photo: Reuters

epa08751656 French President Emmanuel Macron (R), flanked by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (2L), speaks to the press in front of a middle school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, France, 16 October 2020 after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker who has been shot dead by policemen. - French anti-terror prosecutors said on 16 October they were investigating an assault in which a man was decapitated on the outskirts of Paris and the attacker shot by police. The attack happened at around 5 pm (1500 GMT) near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a western suburb of the French capital. The man who was decapitated was a history teacher who had recently shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class. French prosecutors are treating the attack as a terror incident, which coincides with the trial of alleged accomplices of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attackers and comes weeks after a man injured two people he thought worked for the magazine. EPA-EFE/ABDULMONAM E

A view shows the scene of a stabbing attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to visit the scene of a stabbing attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Two journalists stabbed near former Charlie Hebdo office in Paris

French police officers are deployed near the former Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. Photo: EPA-EFE

French firefighters move an injured person to a waiting ambulance near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an alleged attack by a man wielding a knife in the capital Paris on September 25, 2020. - The threats coincide with the trial of 14 suspected accomplices of the perpetrators of the massacres at Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket that left a total of 17 dead. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives at the scene of a stabbing attack near the former offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

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‘This crime has no relation to Russia because this person had lived in France for the past 12 years,’ said Russian embassy spokesman in Paris Sergei Parinov
Identifying the suspect as Abdullakh Anzorov, Parinov said his family arrived in France when Anzorov was six years old and requested asylum



On Friday, 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris.


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